“you”

you feel different, of a higher tier

when you’re used to explosions slow burns strike fear

i’m training new muscles to trick my mind

not to run away or sabotage what’s rightfully mine

it feels like i took the highway just to get down the street

but i can’t say there wasn’t meaning in every step of my feet

you’re more than what i thought or what i could see

i feel for you in the dark and you find me easily

you take your time with my layers, like a painting

you learn and explore me with little regard to the time that it’s taking

now here we stand, developed and willing

to put a new picture in the frame that’s been hanging

i want to receive you but i also want to give

negative and positive, charging us both to live

similarities and synchronicities making it known

on the outside my inner work is now shown

this is courage and patience, revival and redemption

an understanding that where others compromise we’re in collaboration

wherever the destination, i would like to walk in stride

with the one who makes me feel like i no longer have to hide

b.n.